MacDaddy34's blog

This month has been pretty swingy.  It's always frustrating for anyone to lose especially at the highest stakes you play.  But I think I've done a good job of keeping my composure and not letting the losses effect my play.  I've battled back and I'm almost even for the month.  Last month I felt like a King making 58k at 50-100 and this month I'm down about 45k at 50-100.  6 buyins and 4.5 buying is really not that swingy in terms of buyins so I just need to keep that in mind. 

The college basketball tournament has been absurd.  I can't believe Butler made the final four again and joining them is another mid-major in VCU.  I'm a Syracuse fan so it's always rough not making the second weekend of March Madness.  I was still excited tho because before Ohio St's game in the Sweet 16 I had a chance of making a large score.  I entered a 1k bracket and it ended up getting 78 people.  1st place was 53k.  I needed Kansas to beat Ohio St. in the finals.  They were the two best teams left and I was getting pumped up.  Then Ohio St. loses to Kentucky on Friday night and my dreams were crushed!

I've been checking out the BMW hard top convertables and I came across this blog.

http://www.bmwblog.com/2011/02/27/ultimate-european-delivery-trip-for-bmw-1m-owners/

In a little under 8 hours unril the 2nd Larry Poker tournament will tip-off.  This Larry tournament is called The Larry Bowl.  It's a star studded field with the likes of Urnotindanger2, LitleBastrd, TheZadester, jungleman12 and more!!  In case you're unfamiliar with The Larry Bowl, just check out this link to get an idea of the shenanigans

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/29/news-views-gossip/larry-bowl-i-2011-a-981240/

Since I got such a great response from the coinflip community during my 1st blog post, I'm going to be giving out 2 free entries to The Larry Bowl tonight.  Just comment in this blog and say something that makes you stand out from the rest.  Also mention your fulltilt name and I will send $11 to the two winners. 

GOOD LUCK!!!

The Larry Bowl will be played on fulltilt tonight at 11 pm eastern and if you don't have a fulltilt account you can sign up here on coinflip.com.  Just search me on ftp to find The Larry Bowl

2011 has been awesome so far for poker. I'm on a pretty nice heater. Here are some funny hands where people just give me money.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?5896261
Not much to say about this hand, certainly a late xmas gift.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?5896263
I was absolutely shocked to see this guy call if off with A9. These first two hands with A9 happened within 10 minutes too.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?5896265
In this hand I actually tanked for a few seconds on the river because I overbet the pot slightly and you almost never see people bluff overbets but at the end of the day I have a set and who folds those?

http://www.pokerhand.org/?5896266
Another Xmas gift.

Here is my graph for 2011 so far. http://img8.imageshack.us/i/2011throughjan7.jpg/

This weekend I'm flying back to Kansas City for the Chiefs game. The three years I was in Kansas City the Chiefs were a combined 10-38 and this year they go 10-6 and make the playoffs. My first year in Charlotte the Panthers go 2-14. Go figure.

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Hi my name is Evan Panesis, I go by the poker alias "MacDaddy34" and I'm very excited to start blogging on coinflip.com.

Since this is my first blog I'm going to tell you how I got started with poker.  About 7 years to this date I was playing .25-.50 cent in my college dorm room with a $1000 bankroll on pokerroom.com.  I got extremely lucky running up my $50 deposit.  I had very little poker experience as I started playing that summer with high school friends and then weekly $5 tournys at college.  I won a few of those tournys and started to really develop a passion for the game.  I grinded play money online and watched wsop episode reruns of Robert Varkonyi and Chris Moneymaker crushing the fields.  I then decided to take poker seriously and read a book!  My sister bought me the book as a gift and it was called "Play Poker Like the Pros" by Phil Hellmuth.

 "Perfect, I just read this book and I'm gonna be as good as Phil. He's on TV so he has to be the best." 

Those were my thoughts during that time, I was such a fish!  I loved the book and it actually did help me a lot even though it was a limit-hold em book and I played no-limit.  Wait, what the hell was I thinking???  I read a book on limit hold-em and then applied those concepts to no-limit hold em and I somehow won?  Either I was a poker genius back then or everyone else was god awful.  Lets pick the latter on this one, remember it was 2003 right after the Moneymaker Boom.